organized labor (unions)

It’s a great time to be in a union—but a terrible time to try to start a new one.

40 years ago in Chicago, McMaid workers sparked a movement.

Farmworker housing cooperatives in Ventura County, California.

It is time to recognize the power that organized labor can wield to fight for environmental, economic and social justice.

The current Hollywood strikes have a precedent in Disney’s golden age, when the company was a hothouse of innovation and punishing expectation.

Kate Mullany's former home in Troy, New York honors one of the earliest women's labor unions that sought fair pay and safe working conditions.

Many of the reasons for strikes now mirror the motives that workers had for walking off the job in decades past.

Labor radicals played a crucial role in organizing the struggles to topple gender hierarchies, and should serve as an inspiration for labor feminists today.

Spurred by the pandemic, new groups of workers are pushing to form unions in activism not seen since the 1930s.

How the rural Arizona border county embodies the political shift in much of America.

A historic victory in the midterm elections will let Democrats repeal the state’s right-to-work laws and return to its labor roots.

Elites understood that a unified left spelled doom for their economic advantages.

The diminished status of the non-white working class is not a matter of accident, but of design.

We don’t need to overanalyze it. It came down to genuine solidarity that the Amazon Labor Union organizing committee built among themselves and their co-workers.

The Panamanian garment worker turned labor organizer, Pan-Africanist, and anti-colonial activist advocated for US and African workers amid a Cold War freeze.

The trailblazing Black labor leader and civil rights activist took her fight for equality from the packinghouse to the pulpit.

'Isn’t this supposed to be the museum of the motion picture industry?' a historian asks. 'They forgot about the industry part.'

Finally embracing teachers' original vision could help us rethink education after covid.

On the Black labor organizers who fought for civil rights after Reconstruction and through the twentieth century.

Union activists linked the struggle for black equality in housing, employment, and at the ballot box, to the broader struggle against capitalist domination.